Rhesus factors and ammonium: a function in efflux?

Uwe Ludewig, Nico von Wirén, Doris Rentsch and Wolf B Frommer

Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Auf der Morgenstelle 1, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

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Genome Biology 2001, 2:reviews1010.1-1010.5doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-3-reviews1010


Published:	9 March 2001

Subject areas: Biochemistry and structural biology, Physiology, Evolution, Genome studies, Cell biology

Abstract

Completion of fungal, plant and human genomes paved the way to the identification of erythrocytic rhesus proteins and their kidney homologs as ammonium transporters.